D3Wiki:Move to Wikia

Along with its sister site, PvXwiki, the Diablo3 wiki will shortly be moving to Wikia. You can see Gcardinal's message about this on the PvXwiki

Why Wikia? Wikia hosts most of the largest public wikis (except for Wikipedia of course) so they have got the experience the D3Wiki will need as it grows to make sure it stays online and can grow without limits. Wikia has been running for more than 4 years and is a stable company that D3Wiki can rely on long into the future.

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This wiki's user database will be merged with Wikia, giving you the advantage of single login to 12000 wikis! Generally, active users will not experience any change to their account. For 1% of users, there is a name clash with someone else using Wikia. These users will be renamed DIABLO3-OldName. For example, Joe might get renamed DIABLO3-Joe.

The default skin for unregistered users will be Monaco. All registered users are welcome to select any skin in their preferences, including D3Wiki's old monobook skin. The default colour of the skin for unregistered users can be changed by any admin in their preferences and changes can be made to the CSS in the normal way via MediaWiki:Monaco.css.

Wikia has dozens of extensions, some of which are enabled automatically, and many more than can be turned on on request. For example, Wikia has extensions that make it easier to add images or embed videos, as well as lots of anti-spam tools and emergency anti-vandalism tools to negate the effects that malicious users might have on the site.

Wikia stays up to date with the latest stable release of MediaWiki, so upgrades are regularly done, and in a way that does not affect the wiki. You should not experience any downtime as the result of an upgrade.